skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so; Xorg would have (and arguably has in fact) broken in a completely different way than Wayland. Xorg sucks in that 1. its underlying model of display hardware doesn't really map to how modern computers/GPUs work, and 2. its entire protocol has 40 years of cruft. Wayland sucks in that it declared everything beyond drawing pixels an optional extension, and then took 16 years to implement enough extensions to actually compete with X on features (hence my "half-baked" dig). Or more succinctly, X sucks on the backend, Wayland sucks on the frontend. In your analogy, X is the 1987 Hyundai Excel, and Wayland was born a motoped - fast, fuel efficient, and useless as a car replacement. What I firmly believe the X devs should have done (with 16 years of hindsight) is put all their initial effort into replacing the graphics backend while keeping Xorg for users - basically, make rootful XWayland the only Xorg server on Linux - in order to quickly burn a lot of the parts that were painful to maintain with minimal impact to users. Then, if the rest of X really needed to go, they should have written all the protocols needed to implement at least GNOME and KDE before releasing anything, so we didn't spend years on stupid "we have 3 different incompatible screenshot APIs" games. Instead, they shipped a minimum "viable" product and got upset when users didn't want to switch.
Not an artist but the Wacom-like graphic tablets are tethered to the laptop or workstation, with at least two cables (one for power, another for the HDMI) so some artists do prefer the more portable solution of iPad plus that nice Procreate app.
WindRunner: Largest plane, specialized to deliver largest wind turbines
yes and it is incorrect because as a business you need to carry the cost of doing business
Solar and batteries is fusion at a distance with almost no containment, embrittlement, or other technology challenges.
right, but you are unable to even think about buying in nyc without two

once you're in a position to buy, it becomes more convenient to rent until things 'even out'
Even with the advantage of time, I don't think Microsoft would have been able to do it. They can't even get their own UI situated, much less adaptive. Windows 10/11 is this odd mishmash of old and new, without a consistent language across it. They can't unify what isn't even cohesive in the first place.
It's more power efficient than the M3, sure, but surely it could've been even more power efficient if it had worse performance simply from having fewer transistors to switch? It would certainly be more environmentally friendly at the very least!
> However, engineers from UNSW have now developed a new way to make cold brew coffee in under three minutes – just like a regular hot brew – without sacrificing on the taste experience.

I think the commenter you're responding to was calling out the use of the word 'new' (which is used five times in the article) to describe the process, when it's evidently not new at all. The commenter didn't say anything about the price point, and neither does the article.
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It says a lot that this document has to include things like this:

> Only cast if confident it's correct, otherwise investigate more. Casts will silence real problems if incorrectly used.

> Do not assume it is supposed to be an int.

> Do not simply cast to the "other side" of the error. Casts will silence warnings/errors, but that does not mean the cast is correct.

Besides the increasingly well-known footguns of old C code, we're always going to have problems if there isn't an inherent safety culture among the people maintaining open source projects, whether as upstream or a distributor.
Technology and the Transformation of U.S. Foreign Policy
> ME Apple has always been the most honest when it makes performance claims.

Okay, but your example was about battery life:

> LIke when they said an Macbook Air would last 10+ hours and third-party reviewers would get 8-9+ hours. All the while, Dell or HP would claim 19 hours and you'd be lucky to get 2 eg [1]

And even then, they exaggerated their claims. And your link doesn't say anything about HP or Dell claiming 19 hour battery life.

Apple has definitely exaggerated their performance claims over and over again. The Apple silicon parts are fast and low power indeed, but they've made ridiculous claims like comparing their chips to an nVidia RTX 3090 with completely misleading graphs

Even the Mac sites have admitted that the nVidia 3090 comparison was completely wrong and designed to be misleading: https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/31/m1-ultra-gpu-comparison-with-...

This is why you have to take everything they say with a huge grain of salt. Their chip may be "twice" as power efficient in some carefully chosen unique scenario that only exists in an artificial setting, but how does it fare in the real world? That's the question that matters, and you're not going to get an honest answer from Apple's marketing team.
> stop trying to use the system python for application development.

Umm... who exactly makes sure the app runs correctly with the version of python installed by the system?

I, for one, aren't going to bump up a python version to run a single app in a virtual environment because some dev decided to use 'python nightly' to code against.
It might be obvious but I have to ask, is that a stomach problem?
> You have a point in that bureaucracy can needlessly get in the way of meaningful change.

What a good early design doc can do is turn meaningless changes (e.g., doing a project for the sake of promo) into meaningful non- or minimal change. The best code is the one not written.

And at least in my area (Core), the design docs only go through anything like a formal process when it's a larger project that would take years or multiple engineers. Other areas are probably different.
With hardware where power-off is only controlled by software, battery life is predictable, and large amounts of data like raw video are being persisted, they might have a very aggressive version of page caching, and a large amount of storage may imply that a scale-up of RAM would be necessary to keep all the data juggling on a happy path. That said, there’s no non-business reasons why they couldn’t extend that large RAM to smaller storage systems as well.
I think this ought to do the trick for you: https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/
iPads are actually much higher volume than Macs. Apple sells about 2x to 3x as many tablets as laptops.

Of course, phones dwarf both.
I agree with your confusion, are we all talking about the same thing?
This probably includes states with abundant hydro power. That's a much cheaper reliable source of renewable energy.
Anecdotally, some managers like to show how they're present physically yet they don't actually contribute anything.
Running quality assurance tests for NetBSD, from an enterprise software perspect
Wait, what? Did Kagi give a warning about this that I missed?
I was never very keen of non-fiction books. The reason is because I could usually just watch it in movie format which is a lot less time-consuming.

The last fiction book I read (over a decade ago) was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and the reason I read it is because I had watched all the previous Harry Potter films and wanted to know what happens but the movie didn't exist yet at the time. I was hooked and there was literally no other option. I'm sure this effect worked very well in J.K. Rowling's favor.

Some people claim that they prefer fiction in book format because they can fill in the gaps and imagine the worlds and characters however they like... But personally, I prefer getting as much information as possible; visual information is part of it. If I had to choose between watching a film in color or black-and-white, I'd choose color for the same reason... With black and white, I could let my mind wander and assume that the person's clothing is made of gold yarn but I'd rather not as it mostly distracts from the story and those aren't details that interest me.

When I consume fiction, I'm looking for narratives, external perspectives, messages, lessons, principles and insights in a format that is as objective as possible. In book format, there's too much that comes from me, I end up projecting my pre-existing biases into the story and it doesn't feel as satisfying or mind-expanding.
People with government grant or unrestricted access to company money. Already spoke to people wanting to know when they can use their Cost center for one.
I have a 256G iPhone. I think I’m using like 160G. Most stuff is just in the cloud. For an iPad it wouldn’t be any different, modulo media cached for flights. I could see some cases like people working on audio to want a bunch stored locally, but it’s probably in some kind of compressed format such that it wouldn’t matter too much.

What is your concern?
For what its worth, I was watching Al Jazeera live last night, and they did cover last nights protests in Israel (I don’t know where they got their footage though). There were three protestors interviewed and all of them mentioned Palestinians lives[1]. So I was wrong about it being completely absent. There are at least some protestors which do use these protests to advocate for justice for Palestinians.

Daniel Levy’s interview at Democracy Now! this morning was also insightful[2]. Particularly the answer to Juan González’ question:

> JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And I wanted to ask you also about the protests, the continuing massive protests within Israel, even while the war continues. Your sense of the impact of these protests on the Israeli government?

> DANIEL LEVY: It’s a very important point, Juan. What I think we have seen is the intensity of those protests — and those protests tend to center around the prioritizing of getting the hostages out, saying, “Do the deal. Get the hostages out.” The intensity, especially those led by members of family of those being held, by family, friends, those have increased. The volume, the extent to which this is disruptive and is impossible for Netanyahu to stare down, I do not think we are anywhere near that moment.

> The internal pressure is such that the soft opposition, who will run against Netanyahu in the next election, led by this guy Gantz, former chief of staff, former defense minister, and Eisenkot, they are still in the government. They have still not unequivocally said that if Netanyahu turns down the deal, they will quit. Even if they quit, Netanyahu has a majority.

> But the pressure does not feel sufficient that Netanyahu’s politics needs him to accept a ceasefire. He still thinks he can wiggle out of this, which is where the question of the external pressure becomes a key factor, because it’s going to be that combination of internal and external. So I think the next question one would have to address is: Where does the external pressure stand?

So, in short, Daniel Levy does not believe these protests will do anything to change Israel’s policy, nor will any pressure from within Israel. He believes the only thing which will change this policy is external pressure, especially from the US. Meaning the student protests in the US are more relevant to the future of Palestine. The ball is not in Hamas’ courtyard, nor in Israel’s, it is—and has been this whole time—in the US’.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-NKhRVV2gU

2: https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/7/daniel_levy_israel_raf...
The megapopular free-to-play Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail (same devs) make full use of the Apple Silicon iPads. My M1 gets pretty hot when playing either at high settings. Not enough to make it worth upgrading to a M4, of course. Call of Duty: Warzone literally makes my fingertips hurt after one match and the graphics still aren't great.

Apple is pushing more for triple-A games being ported to the iPad (like Assassin's Creed they demoed), but it's a chicken-and-egg problem monetizationwise.
It looks like it's using Pocketbase as the DB. I've been using it in a Flutter app and have been thrilled with it. Definitely recommend it, especially a hosted instance on Pockethost
> Ghost Ship only grew after DRG had sales

Well yes that's what I said, I didn't find what numbers they had at the time but I indicated that they had 32 people (which generally falls short of AA in the first place) 4 years after launching a successful game, so they'd most likely have had even less before then.
What parts pay normal rates? Are they heavily dependent upon solar, wind, and batteries? Or are they using gas or nuclear?
Maybe for GPUs, but for CPU both intel and AMD release with yearly cadance. Even when Intel has nothing new to release, generation is bumped.
Thanks for sharing the laws!
He also played the red cloak.
I strongly recommend picking up a physical copy of The Complete Stories of JG Ballard [0]. Great to read through from time to time. Every story is weird and a little depressing, though, so don't read too many at once.

[0] https://archive.org/details/completestorieso00ball
Same thing in California, but working at night is actually better for the workers when it comes to sun and breathing in exhaust fumes. This might be economical for what amounts to a two lane road, but we have freeways with 22 lanes (I5).
The classic description for this is "being out of touch" with the given media. Not sure if it's something to be proud of.
It's been squeezed more and more exactly because it doesn't pay enough. The best ads revenue would be to have as little as possible ads for the maximum amount of revenue, the opposite is counterproductive after a threshold (which is quite low).

Also if you mean more ads like in podcasts, those are mostly inserted by the shows themselves rather than Spotify, for most of the ads in podcasts Spotify is not earning anything.

> It is not free. People pay with their data and their stolen attention.

Ads on Spotify are much more similar to radio ads than the stuff done by Meta, and Google.

Are radio ads stealing attention? How should radios support themselves if the listener doesn't pay anything monetarily? Same for Spotify's free tier...
Sometimes even after you've come up with the exploit, you can create something really beautiful for the console to run afterwards.

Pokemon Yellow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjm8P8utT5g

Super Mario World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0
You can also install solar tubes to do something similar.
A home is a really silly investment (i know that goes against the prevailing "wisdom"). the economic opportunities of living in an urban area coupled with investing in things that are actually economically productive are more likely to benefit you in the future. does your suburb's tax base cover the infrastructure maintenance costs? is this why suburban folks are so sensitive to their property values, because any little thing could send the development into a tail spin? sounds like a pretty dodgy investment to me.
It ain't the PS3 era where consoles are some radically different hardware stack. The latest gen, except for nintendo, are basically just x86-64 gaming PCs.
do not believe your lying eyes!
They already broke that promise back in january with 1,900 layoffs

https://www.polygon.com/24065269/ftc-microsoft-activision-de...
I would say it would make the most sense to have a replaceable entire ram+cpu+gpu assemble. Just have some standard form factors and connectors for external connectors.

This way, you could keep power consumption low and be able to upgrade cpu to a new generation
This has largely been my experience. Obviously, there are people in these roles that can be "dead weight" just like any other job, but overall the net contribution is beneficial.

I feel like the tech industry has spend the last year or so over-correcting and is now burning the furniture to heat the cabin. Slashing headcount is fine if you're also willing to scale back the things that headcount was expected to build/maintain. Now you have teams that are stretched thin just keeping the lights on. It's not an environment that's going to be conducive to innovation.

The only positive I see in all this is that many of these big companies are now much more vulnerable to competition. Unfortunately I feel like the appetite to take on the big guys just isn't there right now - it's definitely a muscle that's atrophied in the startup space over the last decade.
From Geekbench: https://browser.geekbench.com/opencl-benchmarks

Apple M3: 29685

RTX 4090: 320220

When you line it up like that it's kinda surprising the 4090 is just $1800. They could sell it for $5,000 a pop and it would still be better value than the highest end Apple Silicon.
What's the cost per MWh on that again?
Intuitively, something has to put a limit on number of people residing in mega-cities, and everyone wants to live in a mega-city but not everyone can, or should be able to. It is either cost of housing (because buying is pricier than renting, it will be a price to rent), or commute time. I see nothing wrong with it.

Just like "cancer is something that kills you if nothing else does", so high percentage of cancer deaths is an indicator of healthy population because everything that can be treated or prevented, is treated or prevented, housing being a choke point for a large proportion, or majority of people, is a sign of healthy economy - because housing in the age of hyper-urbanisation is a positioning good that can't be abundant - people want to live somewhere where most people can't be and the only reason why they want is exactly that - because most can't be there - so there is less competition for the amazing opportunities they offer. If housing in hyper-centers was somehow "solved", they won't work as hyper-centers anymore, and those opportunities won't exist, as labour markets there will be saturated.
Are there any tools to convert a TUI into a GUI?
Why not use a Macbook Air for a full experience?
if "doing it well" means doing what these people are doing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40254573

it may have been for the best :)
Yeah making it way more expensive and causing inflation. Yesterday my local grocery had a $29 bag of coffee on clearance... regular $39. If this continues it will transform politics as well.
What clearly nefarious purposes are you referring to?

As far as I know, the argument for forcing TikTok to divest is simply that Americans don't trust a Chinese owned company not to be used as a secret CCP weapon to undermine American democracy as a pretext to total war (or something,) but TikTok hasn't actually done anything to merit that mistrust. They're just another app full of memes.
I used to really like dCOM , Directory Commander, by Dave Frailey / DAC Microsystems.

It mostly used single letter commands modelessly on the keyboard, if I recall, like 'd' to delete files, I think, probably with a confirmation like 'y/n' after you hit 'd'. It was written in ASM. I'm not 100% sure, I just remember how amazingly fast and frictionless it felt after getting used to it.

it was dual-pane. it was probably influenced by other commander/shells, like the Norton Commander, but when I got good with this, it was so fast. It was like using vim purely in edit (not insert) mode the friction of switching modes for managing your files. And you could use the mouse.
How does that justify locking the 16GB option to 1TB/2TB options?
Or the almost 200 other tools and experiments:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wQShF0J3lGmIFACTvt5F...

It's a difficult but important problem to solve and we need more people in this space.
The ipad pro is an absolutely stunning and amazing piece of hardware. The sad part is, to get the most out of it; say as a power user, you'll likely be spending a combined ~$300 a month subscription for any of its 'killer apps' on the app store. The subscription model for me personally has been such a turn off for these locked down apple products.
I love this quote:

Every home will be transformed into its own TV studio. We’ll all be simultaneously actor, director and screenwriter in our own soap opera. People will start screening themselves. They will become their own TV programmes.

Every one of our actions during the day, across the entire spectrum of domestic life, will be instantly recorded on video-tape. In the evening we will sit back to scan the rushes, selected by a computer trained to pick out only our best profiles, our wittiest dialogue, our most affecting expressions filmed through the kindest filters, and then stitch these together into a heightened re-enactment of the day. Regardless of our place in the family pecking order, each of us within the privacy of our own rooms will be the star in a continually unfolding domestic saga, with parents, husbands, wives and children demoted to an appropriate supporting role.

Jerry Seinfeld once did an episode of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" where he showed the edited version of the day he spent with Bob Enstein and the unedited version. It was incredible to me how mundane and boring the unedited version was compared to the brilliant edited version. That was the point Seinfeld was trying to make. We live in a world a world of make believe.
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I have a minimum of 64GB on my all my main developer machines (home, work, laptop), but I have a spare laptop with only 8GB of RAM for lightweight travel.

Despite the entire internet telling me it would be "unusable" and a disaster and a complete disaster, it's actually 100% perfectly fine. I can run IDEs, Slack, Discord, Chrome, and do dev work without a problem. I can't run a lot of VMs or compile giant projects with 10 threads, of course, but for typical work tasks it's just fine.

And for the average consumer, it would also be fine. I think it's obvious that a lot of people are out of touch with normal people's computer use cases. 8GB of RAM is fine for 95% of the population and the other 5% can buy something more expensive.
Books like Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Brave New World, 1984, Animal House, Treasure Island, The Lord of the Flies, The Old Man and the Sea, etc. made much more sense to me than any of the Judy Bloom style books that are so prevalent. The last of those books I enjoyed was "How to Eat Fried Worms," and then, that only resonated with me because we were forced to participate in a school book dressup day and I realized I could coat crunchy chinese noodles with chocolate and bring them to class.

I was a kid of the 80s and 90s. I grew up outside. I played rough and got hurt and then played rough again. I explored. My parents existed to feed me, clothe me, and yell at me for not achieving enough. Any book depicting a parent who sat their child down to give them sage advice about life was completely foreign to my experience.
> Sold at a loss?

I highly doubt they have recouped the R&D costs of making the console and platform at $40-80 per unit. So, yes, at a loss. Looking at the BOM and calling it a day is the shallowest way to evaluate if something is sold at a gain or loss.

> To drive people to play the exclusives?

Nintendo? The major game studio that famously only releases their first party titles on their own platform? Yeah I'm pretty sure that's the reason their entire hardware lineup exists and has ever existed.

> TBH I won't engage further in this line.

Not that you've been engaging in anything but dismissals without substance in this entire post.
For batteries you need two measures at minimum: power (what you can get out when the battery is fully?/half?/?? charged) and energy. But there's more because a battery's power output might not be stable, and it might not be linear with remaining charge.
How to Shoot Street Photography with a 28mm Lens
I was once offered a job by Dyson, at their Malmesbury HQ, but I wasn't going to move to a town with a single major employer (and very limited job prospects for my then-partner were she to accompany me) so I turned them down.

Turned out to be the right decision, because shortly after they moved their HQ to Singapore.
Michael Kandel's translation to English of Stanisław Lem's original Polish:

https://mwichary.medium.com/seduced-shaggy-samson-snored-725...